%$(*#%#$@ Water Well.

Let me be clear. I have quite a vocabulary including "Colorful metaphors", but I don't have the words to describe how aggravated I am this morning.

It's cold, so I thought it would be a good idea to plug the heater tape in at the well. Let me describe the well. It is roughly a 7x7x7 concrete tomb buried in the ground at the highest point on my property. I drove the truck up, got turned around and climbed out to work on the well. The access hole is about 3x3. I wear a 54 jacket. Get the picture. I have to enter at an angle to fit. Yea I need to lose weight. So I get into the hole and start to plug the heat tape in. bzzzz, crackle, buzzz, pop, spark flying everywhere. I don't know why but somehow the heat tape unit shorted out the wires behind it. I was quickly running out of breath as the smoke filled my lungs. I could not get out quick enough to suite my needs. It has been about 2 hours now and I can just now get my breath back. Arg.

I hope the Well still works and it is just the heater. I called the local company that installed the heater tape. they said they would come out and check it out. I filled a 18 gallon tote up for the family so that if the well was not working they would have water for sanitary things.

Someone just wants to see how much I can take before I snap. It is a cruel joke but I hope they are impressed.